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Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. in the union of love I have seen in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
but always pity brought me back to earth; cries of pain reverberated in my heart of children in famine, of victims tortured and of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.